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Park Young-sun wins ruling party's Seoul mayoral bid

Former Startups Minister Park Young-sun, left, celebrates winning the ruling Democratic Party of Korea's (DPK) primary to choose its candidate for the April 7 Seoul mayoral by-election. Park was declared the DPK's sole candidate at the party headquarters on Yeouido, Seoul, Monday. YonhapFormer Startups Minister Park Young-sun was named the ruling Democratic Party of Korea's candidate to run in the April 7 Seoul mayoral by-election, Monday.Park, also a former four-term lawmaker, was declared the winner of a party primary against sitting four-term lawmaker Woo Sang-ho, winning 69.56 percent of the ballots cast by voters in and outside of the party over the phone and the internet for four days to Monday. The support rating was calculated to include extra points the party awarded to Park as a female candidate."By becoming one team with the Moon Jae-in administration and the DPK, I will stably run the city to return happiness to Seoul residents," Park said in an acceptance speech."Over the next 100 years, Seoul will become the world capital of the digital economy," she noted.Park must no

Mar 1, 2021
Park Young-sun wins ruling party's Seoul mayoral bid
  • Ahn taking step forward for Seoul mayoral by-election

Ahn taking step forward for Seoul mayoral by-election

People's Party leader Ahn Cheol-soo, left, poses with former ruling Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Keum Tae-sup at a studio in Seoul, Feb. 25, ahead of a debate broadcasted on YouTube to select one of them as the candidate of a “third zone” for the Seoul mayoral by-election. Ahn became the most favored candidate through a public opinion poll, Monday, and he plans to talk with the main opposition People Power Party about fielding a single unified candidate representing the opposition bloc. Joint press corpsBy Kim RahnMinor opposition People's Party leader Ahn Cheol-soo has overcome the first challenge to becoming a single unified candidate representing the opposition bloc in the April 7 Seoul mayoral by-election, winning a public favorability poll against former ruling party lawmaker Keum Tae-sup.Ahn's party and Keum's election camp announced, Monday, that Ahn gained larger support than Keum in a public opinion poll conducted from Saturday to Sunday. However, they did not disclose the support rates, according to the guideline from the National Election Commission.While

Mar 1, 2021By Kim Rahn
Ahn taking step forward for Seoul mayoral by-election
  • Park Young-sun wins ruling party's Seoul mayoral bid

Korea marks Independence Movement anniversary amid pandemic

A family of four visits Seodaemun Prison History Hall in western Seoul, Sunday, a day before the 102nd anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement. YonhapSouth Koreans are set to mark the 102nd anniversary of the March 1 Independence Movement with smaller, subdued commemorations on Monday as the nation is battling the coronavirus pandemic. The national holiday is usually observed with large ceremonies, processions and performances remembering the months of popular uprisings against Japan's colonial rule (1910-45), which started in Seoul on March 1, 1919. About 2 million people participated in the protests across the county and more than 7,500 were killed, according to historians. Under tight COVID-19 restrictions, however, most of such events have been canceled, scaled down or shifted online this year again, as they were last year.Seodaemun Prison History Hall, a former colonial prison in central Seoul, called off its annual Independence Movement Day program, which included plays, marches, hands-on activities and prison tours and drew about 30,000 visitors in previous years.The

Mar 1, 2021
Korea marks Independence Movement anniversary amid pandemic
  • Appeal underway for UN to mark anniversary of Korean independence fighter's death
  • Moon says Korea will work with Japan for success of Olympics and peace

Ruling party, government to allot 19.5 trillion won for 4th relief funds

Participants in the meeting on a COVID-19 response extra budget pose at the National Assembly in Seoul, Sunday. From left are Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun, Democratic Party of Korea Chairman Rep. Lee Nak-yon, floor leader Rep. Kim Tae-nyeon and presidential chief of staff for policy Kim Sang-jo. YonhapThe ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) and the government agreed Sunday to allot 19.5 trillion won ($17.3 billion) for the country's fourth round of COVID-19 relief assistance.The agreement was made during a tripartite meeting of the DPK, the government and Cheong Wa Dae, attended by DPK Chairman Rep. Lee Nak-yon and Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun as well as Kim Sang-jo, the presidential chief of staff for policy.The upcoming aid package will be funded by an extra budget bill worth 15 trillion won, with the remaining 4.5 trillion won to be assigned from the 2021 state budget, according to DPK spokesman Rep. Huh Young. After pushing the budget bill through a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the government is planning to submit it to

Feb 28, 2021
Ruling party, government to allot 19.5 trillion won for 4th relief funds

Commemorating March 1 Independence Movement Day

Mokpo Coast Guard officers wave the national flag of South Korea on a patrol ship in waters off Gageo Island in South Jeolla Province, Sunday, expressing their strong will to protect the country's maritime sovereignty. They gave the performance a day before the March 1 Independence Movement Day, which marks the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule. Yonhap

Feb 28, 2021
Commemorating March 1 Independence Movement Day

President Moon's Busan visit hit for election meddling

President Moon Jae-in, accompanied by the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) leadership as well as relevant Cabinet members and municipal governors, visits the site of the proposed Gadeok Airport on Busan's Gadeok Island, Feb. 25. YonhapBy Yi Whan-wooThe rival parties are wrangling over President Moon Jae-in's visit last week to the site of an envisioned airport that has emerged as a controversial topic in the run-up to the Busan mayoral by-election scheduled for April 7. The Moon government has sought to materialize a plan ahead of the election to build a new airport on Busan's Gadeok Island.The main opposition People Power Party (PPP) claimed the project is merely an attempt to help the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) woo voters by diverting their attention from the DPK's tarnished image in the port city.The mayoral by-elections in Busan and in Seoul are both the result of sexual harassment allegations against the former mayors.The disgraced former mayors ― Oh Keo-don of Busan and Park Won-soon of Seoul ― both belonged to the DPK. Oh stepped down over sexual harassment a

Feb 28, 2021By Yi Whan-woo
President Moon's Busan visit hit for election meddling

Court upholds ban on anti-government protests scheduled for Independence Movement Day

GettyimagesbankA Seoul court on Friday upheld a ban on street rallies conservative groups planned to hold on March 1 Independence Movement Day, as concerns continue to mount over the spread of the new coronavirus in the capital city.The Seoul Administrative Court dismissed their request to suspend Seoul city government's measure to prohibit anti-government rallies at Gwanghwamun Square in the city center. The groups are critical of the liberal Moon Jae-in administration.The March 1 Independence Movement Day, which falls on Monday, marks the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule.Seoul has banned protests at major squares in the city since February last year to curb the spread of the virus.Level 2 social distancing restrictions are in place in the greater Seoul area, with gatherings of 100 or more people banned.South Korea suffered a new wave of coronavirus cases last year after conservative groups held a mass rally on Aug. 15 Liberation Day.On Friday, the country reported 406 more virus cases, including 382 local infections, raising the total caseload to 88,9

Feb 26, 2021
Court upholds ban on anti-government protests scheduled for Independence Movement Day

Controversial bill on constructing new airport in Busan gets final parliamentary nod

Lawmakers pass a controversial bill on constructing a new airport in Busan, at National Assembly, Friday. YonhapA politically controversial bill on building a new airport in the second-biggest South Korean city of Busan got the final nod from the National Assembly on Friday. The bill nails down a multi-billion-dollar state project to build a new airport on Gadeok Island, the biggest island of Busan, to handle growing air traffic demand and facilitate prosperity in the country's southeast region.The bill proposes special exemption for the compulsory preliminary feasibility study for the construction project, if necessary, and streamlining the process of another follow-up feasibility study in a bid to expedite the envisioned airport's construction.The bill was passed in the National Assembly's plenary meeting in a 181-33 vote, with 15 abstentions.The project is part of South Korea's more than a decade-old debate on expanding air travel infrastructure in the southeast region that encompasses such prosperous cities as Busan and Ulsan.The liberal Roh Moo-hyun administration (2003-2008) fi

Feb 26, 2021
Controversial bill on constructing new airport in Busan gets final parliamentary nod

FKI holds onto Huh Chang-soo for another term

By Kim Yoo-chulThe Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) said Thursday it has reappointed Huh Chang-soo as its head.Huh, who has been serving in the post since 2011, will stay on for another two years. With his reappointment, Huh is the longest-serving chief of the business lobby, according to the group.“Based on reviews from a lot of businesspeople and business circles, the FKI reached the consensus that Huh was the right person to lead the group, again,” the FKI said in a statement. His reappointment ceremony will be Friday morning.FKI Chairman Huh Chang-sooNo other experienced business leaders have applied for the FKI chief position since an earlier scandal involving former President Park Geun-hye in 2017 severely tarnished the reputation of the FKI and its core members. “From the FKI's standpoint, Chairman Huh has been managing the group effectively despite all the difficulties and the challenges the FKI is facing,” the statement said.Huh will be tasked with improving the FKI's image and resetting its position in business circles. Established in 1961, the

Feb 25, 2021By Kim Yoo-chul
FKI holds onto Huh Chang-soo for another term

Concerns rising over hasty legislation of special law for new airport in Busan

President Moon Jae-in listens to a report from Acting Busan Mayor Lee Byung-Jin about a plan to build a new international airport on Busan's Gadeok Island, during his inspection of the site, Thursday. YonhapPresident visits planned site for airport to support projectBy Jun Ji-hyeBoth the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) and the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) are facing criticism for collaborating in the hasty passage of a special bill aimed at constructing a new international airport on Busan's Gadeok Island.If the bill is passed at a National Assembly plenary session scheduled for Friday, it would open the way for the construction ― which would require trillions of won ― to proceed without a feasibility study. The bill also calls for the new airport to be built at government expense.Critics said the parties are pushing ahead with the large-scale national project without a sufficient review and apparently based on populism to woo voters ahead of the April 7 mayoral by-elections that include one in the port city, as well as the presidential election slated for March 20

Feb 25, 2021By Jun Ji-hye
Concerns rising over hasty legislation of special law for new airport in Busan
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